Some of the strange seeds I started today...

[asdjrocky]

California Lemon Mint. They say it's guaranteed to attract humming birds.

Cotton. Don't ask me why, I just saw the seeds and I want to see what it will do, maybe I'll make a sweater. Have you ever grown cotton?

Golden Stripe Bamboo. It can be indoor in small pots or outdoor it's supposed to get really tall. I have a space in my backyard where I want to try it out.

Tokyo Cherry Blossom. From seed. I'm going to try to grow a tree from seed.

So what weird stuff are you growing?

[WhiteTara]

1. cotton is a very pretty plant

I just started seeds galore in little peat packs today. I'll plant flats in the next few. I'm trying artichoke and lemon grass this go round.

[blue neen]

2. Meyer lemon seeds.

It has taken them two months to sprout! :) I had just about given up hope when two little stems appeared this week.

[Denninmi]

3. Some of the more exotic things I'm trying this year

Slipper cucumber -- Cyclanthera pedata (or something like that in Latin) -- a cucumber relative from S. America, makes little 3 inch, semi-hollow fruits you can stuff -- sort of tastes similar to zucchini, I guess.

Desert Raisin or Desert Tomato, a Solanum from Australia, bears little red, tomato like fruits that are claimed to taste like caramel when dried.

Maca -- a root vegetable from the high Andes of Peru, sort or related to radishes and said to be pretty similar to a radish. It's a species of Lepedium (Pennycress, moneywort)

Goosebumps Pumpkin -- a warty orange smallish Jack-o-lantern type pumpkin.

Dickinson Select squash -- the variety of C. moschata (butternut) that Libby's uses for all of it's canned "pumpkin" (which was never a "pumpkin" in the orange, round sense).

Colored cottons -- I've got seeds this year for green and brown cottons, although actually getting mature cotton is pretty iffy here in Michigan.

Texas Gourdseed corn -- a dry corn with kernels that are long, flattened, and really do look like the seeds from a birdhouse type gourd.

[XemaSab]

4. The lemon mint is a Monarda?

That stuff is very fun.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. Garlic has weird, big, green blooms. It's cool.

Maybe it'll keep the vampires and the Christians away. :evilgrin:

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. We are trying lots of different Asian greens -

Mizuna, different mustards and pak choi, spreen - a selection of the good stuff that Johnny's Selected Seeds sell.

Otherwise, we major in tomatoes and minor in peppers and eggplant - those are all going strong and ready for transplant.

This year we are bagging melons (our garden doesn't work well for them), and going with potatoes for the first time in many years - a nice selection of different colored ones from Ronnigers.